This course is available on the BA in History, BSc in International Relations and History and BSc in Politics and History. This course is available with permission as an outside option to students on other programmes where regulations permit. This course is available to General Course students.
This course is available on the BA in History, BSc in International Relations and History and BSc in Politics and History. This course is available with permission as an outside option to students on other programmes where regulations permit. This course is available to General Course students.
The School aims to run in-person seminars, subject to circumstances, with some online provision if and where necessary.?There will be a reading week in week 6 of the Michaelmas and the Lent Terms.
Students will be expected to produce 1 essay and 1 exercise in the MT.
Gwyn Campbell, Suzanne Miers, and Joseph C. Miller, eds., Women and slavery. 2 volumes (Athens, Ohio, 2007).Mariana Candido, An African Slaving Port and the Atlantic World: Benguela and its Hinterland (Cambridge, 2013).Toby Green, A fistful of shells : West Africa from the rise of the slave trade to the age of revolution (London, 2019).Linda Heywood, Njinga of Angola: Africa?s warrior queen (Cambridge, MA, 2017).Jan S. Hogendorn and Marion Johnson, The shell money of the slave trade (Cambridge; New York, 2003).Robin Law, The Oyo Empire, c.1600-c.1836: A West African imperialism in the era of the Atlantic slave trade (Aldershot, Hampshire, England; Brookfield, Vt., USA, 1991).T. C. McCaskie, State and society in pre-colonial Asante (Cambridge, 2002).John K. Thornton, Africa and Africans in the making of the Atlantic world, 1400-1680 (Cambridge; New York, 1992).Jan Vansina, Paths in the rainforests: toward a history of political tradition in equatorial Africa (London, 1990).Ivor Wilks, Forests of gold: essays on the Akan and the Kingdom of Asante (Athens, 1997).
Essay (35%, 2500 words) and source analysis (20%) in the LT. Essay (45%, 3500 words) in the ST.